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medium 4.9

CVE-2022-23452 json

openstack-barbican Denial of Service vulnerability

published 2022-09-01 4 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-6p2h-rjj7-2j63 , PYSEC-2026-785 , EUVD-2022-6721

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • pypi barbican 14.0.0
  • openstack barbican 14.0.0
  • barbican Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:14.0.0~rc1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23452

  • barbican Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
  • barbican Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23452

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  • python3-barbican openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-api openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-common openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-worker openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-keystone-listener openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • python3-barbican openstack 16.2 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican openstack 16.2 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:8874RHSA-2022:5114

  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 6.7.4-3.26.1
  • python-lxml OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 4.2.4-3.3.1
  • python-Pillow OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 5.2.0-3.17.1
  • ardana-barbican OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1644879908.8a641c1-3.13.1
  • rubygem-sinatra OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 1.4.6-4.3.1
  • openstack-cinder OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 13.0.10~dev24-3.34.2
  • openstack-ironic OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 11.1.5~dev18-3.28.2
  • openstack-neutron OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 13.0.8~dev206-3.40.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1729-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23452 updated cvss 3.8

openstack-barbican: Barbican allows anyone with an admin role to add their secrets to a different project's containers

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python-barbican, openstack-barbican, openstack-barbican-api, openstack-barbican-common, openstack-barbican-worker, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 python3-barbican 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-api 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-common 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-worker 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8874
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-barbican 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-api 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-common 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-worker 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5114

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Exploit prediction

1.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi barbican
<14.0.0
14.0.0

Affected products

  • n/a openstack/barbican

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.